The next-to-the-last Amtrak train to arrive into Norfolk sits in the station. It would be the last train to leave Norfolk the next day. The train was a two-year, D.O.T. experimental route. Nam... (more)

Amtrak's Hilltopper skirts past L'Enfant plaza at the start of a torturous trip to Catlettsburg, KY

A leased Amtrak P30CH rounds the curve at 7th Street with an SP commute train.

Pre Genesis Days: A P30CH "pooch" leads the northbound Palmetto through RO Interlocking just north of Potomac Yard, slowing for the river bridge into Washington DC.

This scene has changed so much over the years. You can still get 52 here but now you will find P42's and superliners. Sunrail has changed the track layout and signals.

Amtrak running their first auto service test train,no passengers

Power at Sanford

A little street running on the SP New Orleans-Houston Sunset Route

Leased Amtrak unit operating on the Southern Pacific commute line.

Southbound Amtrak Autotrain crossing the Neabsco Creek near Dale City, Virginia.

The shopmen's ministrations are in vain, and soon an SP GP35 will come from the freight yard to pull #2 to El Paso, sans air conditioning. The Superliners will become unbearable "sauna coaches." ... (more)

This small SP yard was originally a coach yard at the SP Grand Central Station.

First eastbound Sunset Ltd with new Superliner equipment. ATSF Galveston line in foreground.